cannot reslove certain host: www65.arc.net

[Kevin Darcy]

I'm not sure why your nameserver is getting an NXDOMAIN for this name. Both of the authoritative servers (yes, I know there are 3 nameservers published for
the domain, but there are only 2 unique IP addresses) seem to resolve the name just fine. Is there any chance you are forwarding to a nameserver that has
an old slave copy of the zone? That's the only thing that comes to mind.

You might need to turn on the host-statistics option and then when this happens, dump your cache. That will tell you where the bad data is coming from. Or
you could just start the nameserver in debug mode and see where it is sending the initial query for that name.

By the way, ANY queries can give confusing results since servers typically don't recurse for them. If you want to know the A record for www65.arc.net,
query for the A record, not ANY. That's the default query type anyway, so it's easier to type...

                                                                                                                                                - Kevin

tech at cbsgc.net wrote:

> I am running BIND 8.2 on my name servers and for some reason, they simply will not resolve "www65.arc.net".  This is a canonical name for "www.fwb.org".
> When I try to DIG (see below), I get SOA but no answer for address.  nslookups and pings yield a "host unknown"
> Dig's on other servers work fine. (see below)
> I'm new at this, and am in the dark on this one....
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> -Chris
>
> ############################################################
> [root at ns1 /]# dig @ns2.cbsgc.net www65.arc.net ANY
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @ns2.cbsgc.net www65.arc.net ANY
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      www65.arc.net, type = ANY, class = IN
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> arc.NET.                2h45m56s IN SOA  domain-ns-1.arc.NET. admin.arc.NET. (
>                                         175493138       ; serial
>                                         14h6m40s        ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
>
> ;; Total query time: 0 msec
> ;; FROM: ns1.cbsgc.net to SERVER: ns2.cbsgc.net  216.216.132.6
> ;; WHEN: Wed May  2 14:45:31 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 92
>
> #########################################################
> [root at ns1 /]# dig @ns1.netsmith.net www65.arc.net ANY
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @ns1.netsmith.net www65.arc.net ANY
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
> ;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      www65.arc.net, type = ANY, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www65.arc.net.          1D IN A         204.49.37.65
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> arc.net.                1D IN NS        domain-ns-1.arc.net.
> arc.net.                1D IN NS        sparky1.arc.net.
> arc.net.                1D IN NS        sparky2.arc.net.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> domain-ns-1.arc.net.    1D IN A         204.49.37.3
> sparky1.arc.net.        1D IN A         204.49.37.3
> sparky2.arc.net.        1D IN A         204.49.37.4
>
> ;; Total query time: 105 msec
> ;; FROM: ns1.cbsgc.net to SERVER: ns1.netsmith.net  204.49.160.2
> ;; WHEN: Wed May  2 14:47:05 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 165
>
> [root at ns1 /]#